Re: [CPEO-BIF] Whitman Announces $4 Million Pilot Project ToCleanupUndergroun

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

(from Peter Meyer <pbmeyer@louisville.edu>)

Also worth noting is that UST "pay for performance" pilot efforts seem
to show they've hit on major cost/time savers -- and there is some
interest in using that approach for brownfields as well -- at least on
the part of some state-level parties. The logic is that the monies
provided cannot be used for 'time and materials" billing by engineering
firms, but for attainment of specific performance stages. This means the
engineers have an incentive to get done fast -- and there is no payment
for "cost overruns," unless specific standards for determination of
their cause and attribution of responsibility are negotiated in advance
of work initiation. Time and cost can both be halved, as I understand
it. ... this does not solve the exclusion problem, but is a logical
approach to facilitating brownfields reclamation, and local use of such
contracts can be enforced if their use is a requirement of provisions in
state and/or federal grants or loans to assessments and mitigations.

Peter

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